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CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court has denied a suburban Columbus woman’s request to overturn
her convictions for aggravated vehicular homicide and drunken driving in her 6-year-old daughter’s
death.

Kelly Volpe of Prairie Township was found guilty in 2006 after she crashed her pickup truck into
a tree. Her daughter, Abigail, was thrown from the vehicle and died the next day.

Volpe, who is serving a 201/2-year sentence, the maximum, argued that the convictions violated
the constitutional prohibition against multiple punishments for the same offense and said the
convictions should have been merged for sentencing purposes.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said on Thursday that Volpe had been
properly sentenced.